The air in the campus coffee shop felt thick and suffocating. The scent of stale coffee suddenly became nauseating. She’d been so happy here. Now, it was just… over.

She looked around at the familiar faces, the students lost in their books and laptops. They didn't know yet. The news hadn't reached them. She wanted to warn them, but the words wouldn't come.

A sob escaped her, and she quickly covered her mouth with her hand. Her chest ached. She felt like she was drowning.

Emotion: hysterical

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety
PC1 (Valence): -3.19 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.45

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion hysterical. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 hysterical stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the hysterical emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the hysterical vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
worse0.401
0.401
점점0.396
😫0.377
それでも0.373
Suppressed:
la-0.672
a-0.618
de-0.541
😎-0.370
😎-0.359